'Women Workers' Disapproval of Payment Method Five hundred women operatives in the packing department of the Nan yang Brothers Tobacco Factory om Broadway East on December 18 struck work as a protest against now method of payment of wages inaugurated by the management, but in the afternoon most of the star resumed work. The new arrangement of the company is to pay the stof? fortnightly and in big money, instead of daily and in small money, as has been the custom, To this the packing staff would not agree, and they refused to work. They also refused to leave the building, and as a consequence the Police were called in about 11 a.m. some dozen men from Wayside Station having small difficulty in getting them out of the factory. The gat> was them closed. At 1 pam, a squad from the Reserve Unit relieved the men from Wayside Station, as the latter had other duties to carry out.
At 8 p.m, most of the 500 resum~ ed work, the others, not wishing te stand about in the rain indefinitely, having gone to their respective homes, Many of the operatives had been unwilling, in the first place, to strike,
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